Corinne Turner (Chair)
Corinne has managed and helped develop authors’ literary estates for around 30 years. She is Managing Director of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd and also owns and manages the literary estate of children’s author, Willard Price.

Karen Blewett
Karen worked in the publishing industry for over 20 years, in a variety of senior financial and commercial roles for Dorling Kindersley and Little, Brown. While her day job involved numbers and systems, her first love has always been reading.

Thanhmai Bui-Van
Thanhmai has been a bookseller, book buyer and now works in sales at Titan Books. Crime fiction has been a constant in her book career and she says, ‘over the years it’s been a pleasure discovering new authors.’

Tom Fleming
Tom Fleming is the longstanding deputy editor of Literary Review. He also writes for The Spectator, The TLS and Apollo, among other publications.

Richard Heffer
Born in Cambridge into the family of HEFFERS BOOKSHOP.
Worked as a professional actor from 1968, in Theatre, Film, Radio and Television worldwide until 2005. A great fan of all periods of crime fiction, and keen to encourage new writing.

Ayo Onatade
Ayo Onatade is a CWA Red Herring Award winning freelance crime fiction critic, reviewer and blogger. She has an eclectic taste in crime fiction, which runs the gamut from historical crime fiction to hardboiled and short stories. A former Chair of the CWA Short Story Dagger and judge of the Ngaio Marsh Award.